2008 - in Rainer
Straschill's musical cosmos, the year of the 2008 MoinSound World
Tour, which featured next to stations in three countries, on two
continents, in different festivals (among them headlining the bodacious Boise Experimental Music Festival
3) and again in cyberspace primarily one thing: the triumphant return of the
concert trombone to the instrument choice of Straschill, completed only by weird
vocal noises and his signature "komische Elektronik" (which can only
inadequately be translated to "whimsical electronics").

The album
Wie groß ist die Luft ? (German for "How big is the air?")
documents different performances from this programme. Indeed, to make it even
more interesting, completed by spontaneously added guest musicians: during the
2nd Live Looping
Festival Berlin gig, it was TJ Shredder, who let his even more whimsical
electronics (a.k.a "Ondes Memorielles") loose on a Straschill performing purely
acoustically. The second evening of the BEMF3 main festival found Straschill
joined by Motoko Honda (grand piano) and Krispen Hartung (without any
electronics, but with acoustic guitar), himself well-known from Straschill's
surroundings.

But how does it
sound? A short description: odd, and sometimes surprising. The slightly longer
one: surprising insofar, as there are quite lyrical passages to be admired. And
the even longer one: "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" -
for which reason I'll just point to the work of art: